FIVE
ALLIGATOR ARTISTS RECEIVE NINE 2013
BLUES BLAST AWARD
NOMINATIONS

Alligator Records artists Curtis Salgado, Rick
Estrin & The Nightcats, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials, Janiva Magness
and the late Michael "Iron Man" Burks received a total of nine 2013 Blues Blast
Award nominations. Salgado and Estrin each received three, while Burks, Lil' Ed
& The Blues Imperials and Magness each received one.

The Blues Blast
Awards are presented by Blues Blast magazine, a free weekly internet
blues magazine. Winners are chosen by fan voting, which will begin at the Blues
Blast website
starting July 15. All Blues Blast subscribers are eligible to vote.
Winners will be announced at the Blues Blast Awards ceremony at Buddy Guy's
Legends in Chicago on Thursday, October 31.

Artists and nominations are
below:

Curtis
Salgado:

Male Blues Artist Of The Year
Soul Blues Album Of
The Year - Soul Shot
Song Of The Year - A Woman
Or The Blues (by Curtis Salgado and Dave
Duncan)

Rick
Estrin & The Nightcats:

Band Of The Year
Contemporary Blues Album Of The
Year - One Wrong Turn

Rick Estrin:
Male
Blues Artist Of The Year

Michael
"Iron Man" Burks:

Lil'
Ed & The Blues Imperials:

Band Of The
Year

Janiva
Magness:

Female Blues Artist Of The
Year

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